{"id":457922,"date":"2026-06-03T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457922\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:04:12","slug":"chatgpt-app-hits-1-billion-monthly-active-users-in-record-time-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457922\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT app hits 1 billion monthly active users in record time, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>&#8216;s ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, \u200cbecoming the fastest app ever to reach \u200cthe milestone, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor \u200bTower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The record comes amid growing competition between Anthropic and OpenAI for dominance in the rapidly expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Here are some details:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 ChatGPT reached 1 \u200cbillion MAUs in \u2060May, roughly three years after launch, surpassing the pace set by apps including \u2060Google Maps, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, Sensor Tower said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 The firm said U.S. ChatGPT users who \u200binstalled Anthropic&#8217;s \u200bClaude app in \u200bthe first quarter of \u200c2026 spent 5% less time on ChatGPT one month after installation, compared with their average usage in the prior eight months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Anthropic confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Monday, \u200cwhile Reuters has reported that \u200bOpenAI is also preparing to \u200bfile for an \u200bIPO in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 As \u200cof the second quarter \u200bto date, Claude \u200bhad 56 million global monthly active app users, while its year-over-year MAU growth of \u200babout 640% significantly \u200coutpaced ChatGPT&#8217;s 62% growth, according to Sensor \u200bTower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Shreya Biswas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; OpenAI&#8216;s ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, \u200cbecoming the fastest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[363,111,139,69,103261,145],"class_list":["post-457922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sensor-tower","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}